What Is the Bible?: The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture

The patristic doctrine of Scripture is an understudied topic. Recent scholars, however, have shown considerable interest in patristic exegetical strategies and methodsfrom rhetoric and typology, to theory and method; far less attention, though, has been paid to the early Christian understanding of the nature of Scripture itself. This volume explores the patristic vision of the Biblethe understanding of Scripture as the word of life and salvation, the theological, liturgical, and ascetical p...